NICKNAME: Boro

FOUNDED: 1876

MANAGER: Gareth Southgate

GROUND: Riverside Stadium

LAST SEASON:

League 13th FA Cup Quarter-finals Carling Cup Third Round

HONOURS:

Nationwide One Champions (1) 1994-95

Division Two Champions (3) 1926-27, 1928-29, 1973-74

Carling Cup Winners (1) 2004

FA Amateur Cup Winners (2) 1895, 1898

Anglo-Scottish Cup Winners (1) 1976

RECORD VICTORY: League 9-0 v Brighton, Division Two, 23-08-1958 Cup 7-0 v Hereford, Coca-Cola Cup Second Round First Leg, 18-09-1996

RECORD DEFEAT: 0-9 v Blackburn, Division Two, 06-11-1954

RECORD ATTENDANCE: 53,596 v Newcastle, Division One, 27-12-1947 (Ayresome Park)

RECORD TRANSFER PAID: Undisclosed (thought to be £12.7million, Afonso Alves to Heerenveen, January 2008

RECORD TRANSFER RECEIVED: £12m, Juninho from Atletico Madrid, July 1997

TOP LEAGUE GOALSCORER: Season George Camsell, 59, 1926-27 All-time George Camsell, 326, 1925-39

MOST LEAGUE APPEARANCES: Tim Williamson, 563, 1902-23